National Health Operations Center

An 18-year-old high school student died on Wednesday after falling from the fourth floor of an apartment block in the city of Giannitsa, northern Greece, yesterday, in an apparent suicide.

Regional police confirmed the age of the boy and the fact that he was transferred to the nearest hospital where his death was confirmed.

Greece is to begin vaccinating young refugees from Syria against polio because of fears that the infectious disease, which was officially wiped out more than a decade ago, may be reintroduced to the country by people fleeing the war-torn state.

Authorities found on Monday an Athenian taxi driver who picked up a passenger arriving from Saudi Arabia on Thursday while suffering from a rare respiratory disease that has killed dozens.